Sojourner Truth’s speech is about the plight of both women and black slaves and how they intersect with black women. Sojourner Truth makes statements regarding the womens rights movement and the slave rights movement and effectively joins the two movements. Sojourner Truth was a black woman who gave this speech at a women’s convention in 1851. She uses the repetition of “And ain’t I a woman?”, which is meant to draw attention to her being a woman and black. She uses this to bridge slave rights and womens rights because she is in fact, both a woman and a black slave. She lists off all the things that people say women should have done for them, and then calls it all out because she has not had any of these things done for her, even though she …show more content…
She shows her credibility based on her experiences in life, as a woman and as a slave. “I could work as much and eat as much as a man” and “Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place”. Shows her knowledge by logically refuting popular arguments against womens rights. “Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman!” and “If my cup won’t hold but a pint, and yours holds a quart, wouldn’t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure-full?”. Describes life as a female slave, giving up her children, working just as hard as a man. She is a common woman, and uses that to her advantage. She links both the womens rights and slave rights because she is both. In I Want a Wife, Judy Brady makes statements regarding the expectations placed on women as wives and the treatment of wives by their husbands. She uses a narrative style essay to present her argument as a natural and reasonable thing for her to want a wife. Shocks the reader a bit because why would a woman want a wife? She also presents the ideas that men have about how wives should behave and tasks they should do. She presents that she wants a wife to do these things while she goes off to do what husbands do. This highlights the inequalities of the